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A92842 Antinomianisme anatomized. Or, A glasse for the lawlesse: who deny the ruling use of the morall law unto Christians under the gospel. / By John Sedgwick, B.D. and Pastor of the Church of God at Alphag, neer Cripple-gate London. Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643. 1643 (1643) Wing S2359; Thomason E63_5; ESTC R4740 39,115 56

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Antinomianisme ANATOMIZED OR A GLASSE FOR The Lawlesse Who deny the Ruling use of the Morall LAW unto Christians under the GOSPEL By John Sedgwick B. D. and Pastor of the Church of God at Alphag● neer Cripple-gate London It is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void thy Law Psal 119. 126. LONDON Printed for Samuel Gellibrand and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Brazen Serpent 1643. To the Reader Loving the Law of our God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ Faith and Obedience Beloved WHen I looked upon the old odious Heresie of the Antinomians condemned by the Art 7. Doctrine of our Church taking the advantage of the times Distractions newly to revive it self and to appear with its wonted face that cannot blush I thought at first following Saint Augustine to have said Non Cont. Petil. lib. 2. in venio quomodo te refellerem nisi ut aut jocantem irriderem aut insanientem dolerem And so to have passed them over in silence But finding the Fomenters to prevail and the Gangrene to spread especially among the weaker more ignorant and rude sort and that whilst some did seem to teach they did but infect using this cunning to utter some Truths to make way for their damnable Doctrines v. g. by crying up Free Grace Christs Righteousnesse and Gospel Libertie Doctrines of singular consequence and great use if rightly and purely opened and such as no man would suspect should be held out as Baits and Snares to intangle or draw men aside from the power of Faith to cast down Obedience and keep Christians from their dutie to God which stands in a care of keeping up their communion with him observing of his Minde and Will laid down in his Law Repenting and Mourning for Sin together with a speciall watchfulnesse against all sinfull courses I could do no lesse then shew my self in the Field against them not in respect of their * Magis misericordià digni quam invidià Persons but their Positions and Practises desirous to imitate those two worthy Lights Hierome and Augustine the one saying That Feci ut hostes Ecclesiae mei quoque bostes fierent Hier. Incomparabiliter pulc●rior est veritas Christianorum quam Helena Graecorum Aug. Ep. 9. he made the enemies of the Church and Truth his enemies And the other That he made the Truths of God more precious to him then Helene of the Grecians I am already resolved to bear with patience by the strength of Christ the hatred and the railings of the Fathers and Fautors of this Heresie not passing much their judgement Well I know with Hierome The Trueth may be blamed but not shamed Veritas laborare potest vinci non potest And that all their approbrious words the fruits of their Licentious Doctrine are like to the cry of an enemy afar off and as Hail-stones which do fall down about our ears without any harm I wish them soundnesse of head heart speech and Life As for you who know and feel the power of Holy Truthes and do desire to walk in Jesus Christ according to the Rule of Faith and Love laid down in the Law and Gospel Come and see Try all things 1 Thes 5. 21. Beleeve not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world 1 John 4. 1. Be not of the fools minde to beleeve every thing Be not of the sick mans minde to be given to changes Neither be of their mindes who love to be picking and scraping in the dirt when heaps of corn are before them So root and ground your selves in the Trueth that you be not carried away like children with every winde of Doctrine and endeavour so to behave your selves That in Agesilaus changes you be not changed I hope that this ensuing Dialogue shall have as good successe as the Sermons themselves The Antinomians about the Citie were startled some of them were convinced confessing that they had been mis●led other of them began to be ashamed of their own Doctrines affirming That they never taught against the Law it was onely their hearers mistake wherein they have made Sententias ejus prodidisse superasse est good that saying of Hierome It is a sufficient confutation of Heresie to lay it open I hope to hear that those few Ministers whose Parts and Lives are looked upon and into will be made wise and in stead of floods of words and shews of Truth which carry reality of poison to addresse themselves to soundnesse of Doctrine and to a form of wholsome words wherein they may expresse themselves and benefit those poor souls who yet are seduced and hardned by them if they shall continue in this Law-destroying and Dutie-casting-down course still infecting and infesting the people of God do you my brethren beware of them and withdraw your selves from them as enemies to the soveraigntie of God over Christians though they hatch and vent errours yet be not you intangled by them Let no man beguile you with entising words Col. 2. 4. For hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his Commandments 1 John 2. 3. This course of Obedience which is the grace of your Faith the credit of the Gospel the Will of God in Jesus Christ and the main drift of the ensuing Treatise keep up in Sincerity and Constancie hereby you shall rejoyce the soul of Your souls Servant John Sedgwick Perlegi Tractatum hunc cui Tirulus The Anatomie of the Antinomian quem quia singulari usui futurum Ecclesiis judico praelo mandandum censeo Julii 27. 1643. Ja. Cranford This Book intituled The Anatomie of the Antinomian I judge very fit to be Printed and very necessary for these times Edm. Calamy Errata In Pag. 12. l. 7. for command r. declare In p. 23. l. 29. for dot r. doth In p. 24. l. 2. for unfft r. unsit In p. 24. l. 3. for vave r. have In p. 30. l. 7. for adminstration r. administration In p. 35. l. 13. for 12. r. 2. In p. 46. l. 2. for and r. which The ANATOMIE of the ANTINOMIAN The Nomist MY loving friend and old acquaintance you seem by your countenance to be somewhat vexed in minde The Antinomist I have been at your end of the Town hearing one of your Legall Preachers who hath Preached such Stuffe as hath made me almost mad I could have found in my heart to have pluckt him out of the Pulpit Nomist Who are those whom you do stile Legall Preachers Antinomist To speak my minde freely unto you Set aside some six or The Antinomians modest language seven rare Phoenixes sprung out of the ashes of one Mr. Trask Eaton Shaw and others of that stamp I hold all the Ministers in London yea and of the whole Kingdom to be but Legall Preachers for as yet the Light is not revealed to them and they